A fundraiser will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. April 26 to raise startup money for four "social enterprises" developed by MBA students at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. The businesses are Harvest 361, which will plant urban farms and educate people about healthy diets; Last Call Cab, which will offer low-cost rides to people who have had too much to drink; Para Adelante, which will provide education funding to Latin American women; and SolArt Technologies, which will provide portable, solar-powered medical sterilization devices to clinics in developing countries. The event will be held at Green Bench Brewing, 1133 Baum Ave. N, St. Petersburg. Tickets are $25. Information: weignite.org.

Eckerd gets grant for cancer study

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $747,000 to Eckerd College to develop methods to study boron-based drugs that fight resistant cancers, such as pancreatic and ovarian cancers. Assistant professor of chemistry Joseph Larkin, Ph.D., will lead the project, working with Eckerd undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from USF.